PENGARUH KEPEMIMPINAN KEPALA SEKOLAH DAN MOTIVASI KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA GURU

Generally, teacher performance becomes the main objective in improving the quality of education. Therefore, the improvement of the teacher performance requires serious attention from various parties and needs efforts to increase the factors relating to the teacher performance, such as principal leadership and work motivation. This study aimed at determining effects on school leadership and motivation on the performance of teachers at SMAN 7 of Banda Aceh. This study used a quantitative approach with the associative method. The data analysis technique used to test the hypothesis was simple linear regression analysis and multiple, t-test and F-test. The results showed that: 1) there was a significant correlation between the leadership of the principal on teacher performance that was equal to 35.8%. This meant that both variables affected each other, the more conducive school leadership is, the better the level of teacher performance is; 2) there was a significant correlation of work motivations on the performance of teachers of 99.3%. Where the work motivation of teachers would affect the activities of teachers in the school to achieve maximum performance of teachers. High motivation will also encourage teachers to develop creativity and actualize all of the capabilities as well as its energy in order to achieve maximum achievement; and 3) there was a significant correlation between the principal leadership and motivation to work together on teacher performance about 96.8%. Both variables, the principal leadership and motivation, were accordance with the teacher performance variable, meaning the better the principal leadership and motivation are, the higher the performance of the teacher is.Keywords: leadership, principal, work motivation, and teacher performanceAbstrak: Kinerja guru menjadi sasaran utama dalam peningkatan mutu pendidikan secara umum. Oleh karena itu, peningkatan kinerja guru perlu mendapat perhatian yang serius dari berbagai pihak, dan upay